The Red Hat GitOps team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you will become a member and a developer of our GitOps development team. You will get to learn about and work on a variety of new technologies and open-source projects. You’ll need to be committed, self-motivated, proactive, and reliable with analytical skills and experience working upstream.
GitOps is an end to end application development workflow and allows easy deployment across multiple cloud environments. Gitops works with multiple RH products - RHACM, OpenShift, Helm, Kustomize, Tekton Pipelines and also upstream products like Argo CD/GitOps Engine and Argo Rollouts.
The engineer will be versatile and dynamic to be able to learn these areas and work in GitOps. and also develop tools to automate software deployments, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and testing. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do?Develop secure, reliable and scalable software, primarily in Golang, OpenShift and cloud-native technologies.
Work in an agile team using agile development practices based on test-driven development and DevOps
Review, integrate, extend, develop, and operate software together with your team members, leads and architects
Participate in the Argo community by writing blogs, participating in forums, and speaking at user groups and conferences
Support Customers for the product
Practical development experience in a language like Go, Java or Python. Good understanding in at least one of the programming languages to build enterprise applications and/or backend services/applications.
Familiarity with frameworks, libraries, or SDKs for your language of choice
Background in Linux or UNIX operating systems
Hands on with both the development and operational topics to Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes
Excellent communication skills; knowledge of agile programming practices and pair programming practices
Understanding of test-driven development, continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD), committer or contributor model and experience using Git.
The following experience is considered a plus:
Familiarity with open source development, projects, and processes is a plus
Developing a Kubernetes controller, operator, or platform component
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Skills Required
- Practical development experience in Golang, Java or Python
- Understanding of test-driven development, CI/CD, and Git
- Background in Linux or UNIX operating systems
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes
- Excellent communication skills
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, with substantial PTO for new hires plus additional recharge days and an end-of-year shutdown for many non-critical roles. Paid volunteer time, holidays, sick days, and supportive expectations around taking time off reinforce the breadth of leave benefits.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — The rewards package includes performance bonuses and a recurring quarterly bonus program tied to company and individual performance. Availability of ESPP participation further adds to incentive pathways beyond base pay.
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